1954: Alcatraz – The cash is out there. But who will get it? Joe's doing 40 years on Alcatraz for a heist on an armored truck. The loot is still hidden out there, but only Joe knows where it is. In the streets of San Francisco, Joe's ex-accomplices and his wife are eager to find the stolen money. Who will get their hands on the dough?

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Includes 11 items:
Deponia, Chaos on Deponia, Goodbye Deponia, The Whispered World Special Edition, The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav, A New Beginning - Final Cut, Memoria, The Night of the Rabbit, Edna & Harvey: The Breakout, Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes, 1954 Alcatraz

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“It manages to draw the player in, not only because a prison escape is impressive, but because escaping from Alcatraz is especially daunting.”
Snackbar Games

“Gene Mocsy and Daedalic should be proud, as this is easily one of the most intriguing point-and-clicks around.”
Gaming Lives

“1954 Alcatraz is an interesting adventure to get lost in for a while.”
God Is A Geek

About This Game

1954: Alcatraz – The cash is out there. But who will get it?

Joe's doing 40 years on Alcatraz for a heist on an armored truck. The loot is still hidden out there, but only Joe knows where it is. In the streets of San Francisco, Joe's ex-accomplices and his wife are eager to find the stolen money. Who will get their hands on the dough?

In this interactive Point & Click adventure by Daedalic Entertainment and Irresponsible Games - the team of Gene Mocsy - Joe and his wife Christine will be playable characters. Players will decide between love, treachery, life and death: will Christine assist Joe during his prison break? Will they recover the fortune together? Or will they succumb to greed? Will Christine deceive her husband, taking revenge for all the disappointments and a marriage that brought her nothing but hardship? Will she just turn her back on Joe and hit the road with his former accomplices? Or will Joe gain everything in the end?

1954: Alcatraz offers all what makes a great adventure: challenging puzzles, a mature crime story with a dynamic plot and various possible outcomes, and a whole bunch of shady characters: brutal felons, making life on The Rock even harder for Joe, while outside not only his partners-in-crime but also snoops and cops are after the money and Christine. The cinematic San Francisco of the 1950s, caught in a gritty comic style is a harsh place. But it's also a place where 1954: Alcatraz can also pay homage to history and zeitgeist, in form of the Beatnik culture and other contemporary themes.
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Key Features

Two playable characters: the gangster couple Joe and Christine

More than 20 additional 3D animated characters

More than 60 hand drawn backdrops, based on original footage of San Francisco, North Beach and Alcatraz

Story-driven, though not without a few glaring faults // Will round out a good point & click collection

+ Fantastic voice-acting; the majority of lines are delivered in an organic, quality manner+ Well-crafted dialogue options; writing feels mature and immersive+ Hand-drawn set designs are artistic lend a unique feeling to the experience+ Everything, from the dialogue, to the set features, feels period-appropriate+ Boasts a mature and competently developed narrative+ Soundtrack, of a largely jazz-theme, is absolutely fantastic

- Poor animation quality; everything feels clunky and uncoordinated, but not in a charming way- Puzzles are, occasionally, woefully simplistic- Poor secondary character development; most of the support cast is immediately forgettable- Audio design seems to often be out of sync with the actions of the characters

I genuinely enjoyed this game. This is one of the best point and click adventure games I played thus far.Graphically, it is very well designed with a comic feel and style to it. You have different locations and settings to explore.The soundtrack was also top notch. It really gives you that 50's vibe with jazzy tunes playing on the background. The voice acting was also superbly done and the dialogues were well written. It is like reading pages from a novel.About the gameplay. it is basically a point and click game. You get to play two protagonist, who happen to have their own unique personalities, wherein you can switch characters anytime you like. You have your puzzles here and there, which I find a little too easy. You have to do a lot of back and forth stuff here. The only annoying thing there is the long loading times.The game has multiple endings depending on the choices you made earlier in the game. This gives the game a replayability factor, which I always look for in games. It gives you that motivation to see how a game will turn out if you did this rather than that.I love playing games that have a well-thought-out story. If you love those type of games, I highly recommend this game.

Story line is really superb, given a great combination of emotions and entertainment. This game have different endings, as well as different pathways towards it. Give it a go, one of the best point and click games in my opinion.

1954 Alcatraz just by it's name you can tell it's a prison break game. You play as husband Joe from inside of prison and Wife Christine from out side of prison.

The story is fairly short but decent. It's a basic find object use object to solve situation game. My first play though was around 5 hours and i missed 5 achievements. With a guide while reading a book at same time i was able to conplete my second play though to get 100% with only 132 minutes of game play.

The overall graphics is ok for indie but it is a still feels a bit outdated. Walking animation is choppy at times. There is one graphic bug that seen and took a screenshoot. There is also another bug that if you alt+tab out all you clue magnify glass and exit signs will show up on your screen forever without you ever need to press space for it.

The puzzle are really simple but it does take some time to find all the items needed.

Music is actually really engaging and is a big plus for this game.

All the conversation in this game is completely voiced and it's pretty well done.

Achievements are really easy to get but without a guide it's quite simple to miss a few.

Loved the idea, nice atmosphere with the color filter on, nice story, good voice acting, nice music. I enjoyed playing it, but ... the games seems rushed. Even after solving a puzzle, and being way ahead in the story, you can still see the old conversations. I found this pretty annoying. Also the game is fairly short. I would feel ripped off if i played the full price. But i got it in a bundle, so can't complain about that really. And some of the clues were given a bit too fast, making it quite easy to find out what to do next.

I restarted the last saved game because of the multiple endings, but was disappointed in the result of that. No replay value , like with 99% of the point n click adventure games. I enjoy working on the Steam achievements, but won't restart the game to get the ones I did not get the first time. The game is simply not interesting enough for that.

So is it a bad game? Naw, I had fun playing it, and really wanted to finish it and keep playing, so that's good I guess.Is it a good game then"? That neither because of all written above.

I can recommend it when you can get is cheap. But not when you play full price. I think paying 20 euro is absolutly too much. I would pay max 6-8 Euro for it.